Us Code § 617n - Projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes; investigations and reports
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§ 617n. Projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes; investigations and reports
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to make investigation and public reports of the feasibility of projects for irrigation, generation of electric power, and other purposes in the States of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming for the purpose of making such information available to said States and to the Congress and of formulating a comprehensive scheme of control and the improvement and utilization of the water of the Colorado River and its tributaries. The sum of $250,000 is authorized to be appropriated from said Colorado River Dam fund, created by section 617a of this title, for such purposes.
(Dec. 21, 1928, ch. 42, §15, 45 Stat. 1065.)
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